Did dmd forget how to read?

Cym13 via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Aug 6 01:44:43 PDT 2017


On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 02:10:43 UTC, Johnson Jones wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 August 2017 at 00:22:45 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
>> On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 23:54:45 UTC, Johnson Jones 
>> wrote:
>>> main.d(157): Error: no property 'SetCursor' for type 
>>> 'gdk.Window.Window', did you mean 'getCursor'?
>>>
>>> um... anyone see bug? It's there, I promise.
>>
>> "setCursor" exists, but "SetCursor" doesn't (or your "bug" 
>> depends on code that you wrote and didn't share). I believe as 
>> both "setCursor" and "getCursor" are one character away from 
>> "SetCursor" dmd took the first one in alphabetic order or 
>> something. No need to panic ;)
>
> No one is panicking, so you can stop panicking that you think 
> they are panicking.
>
> The point is that setCursor is much closer to SetCursor than 
> getCursor. It should prioritize case differences first. 
> SETCURSOR should still match setcursor better than getcursor or 
> getCURSOR or whatever.
>
> But I'll get you a ascii star for realizing the issue
>
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If you feel that way you should post an issue on 
https://issues.dlang.org/ ; posting here is no solution. Or 
better propose an issue and a patch: I imagine that the code 
involved is fairly simple and unlikely to break anything so maybe 
it'll get merged quickly.


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